Sabretooth

2002 "Be prepared to be ripped apart!"
3.4| 1h30m| R| en| More Info
Released: 26 November 2002 Released
Producted By: International Film Group (IFG)
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.

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Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch
Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Wuchak RELEASED TO TV IN 2002 and directed by James D.R. Hickox, "Sabretooth" chronicles events when a saberetooth cat, cloned via fossilized DNA, is unleashed into the Big Bear Valley wilderness where it preys on vacationers and a group of trainee guides (led by Jenna Gering & Josh Holloway). The two responsible for creating the creature (Vanessa Angel &John Rhys-Davies) hire a great white hunter to capture it (David Keith).The beginning introduces the main cast and it's too goofy for its own good, particularly in regards to the trainee program group. But the story surprisingly gets compelling, despite the goofiness, and there's a great romantic scene between Holloway's character and Lola (Nicole Tubiola). The cast is likable (rounded out by Lahmard J. Tate and Phillip Glasser) and there's a nice assortment of females but, for me, they all lacked genuine sex appeal, except for maybe Steffanie Busey (Kara), who is overlooked because her part's so peripheral. It's a fun flick and the locations are great, but the creature is too cartoony to suspend disbelief when its head or body is clearly shown. They should've limited views to quick, partial looks, like they did in the first half. THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour & 30 minutes and was shot in Big Bear Lake area, San Bernardino National Forest, California. WRITERS: Scott Vandiver (concept) & Tom Woosley (script). GRADE: C/C- (4.5/10)
sol (There are Spoilers) Your usual monster from the past coming to a theater, or DVD outlet, near you with a ferocious 500 plus pound saber-tooth tiger-minus its stripes-being brought back to life via DNA genetic engineering. The two persons responsible for the saber-tooth's resurrection multi-millionaire and presidential hopeful, or so he hopes, Anthony Bricklin, John Rhys-Davis, and his lover and assistant DNA and genetic engineer Catherine Vicly, Venessa Angel, have no idea in what a Frankenstein, or Tony the Tiger, monster they created until it was too late.With the saber-tooth escaping from his confinement, when the truck that he was caged in overturned, he goes straight into he wilds of the Nortern California mountains and runs into this troop of outdoor guides lead by the beautiful and well built, she has to be in tip top shape for the job she's doing, Casey Balenger, Jenna Gering. Wanting to take the big cat alive both Catherine and Brickin get big game hunter Bob Thatcher, David Keith, to hunt the killer feline down but a with a tranquilizer, not a super elephant, gun.The killer cat using his superior sense of smell and hunting ability has no trouble at all finding his prey, which seems to be exclusively humans, and in no time at all almost wipes out and eats the entire cast in the movie. Thatcher who's about the only person in the film who has a chance to bring down the saber-tooth is handicapped by both Catherine and Bricklin who want the beast to be taken alive not dead in order to get both rich and farther their careers in politics and science. Bricklin feels the cat, with the money he gets from exhibiting it, will get him elected president and Catherine, in her creating it out of 10,000 year old DNA matter, the Nobel Prize in biological research. The only thing these two deluded lunatics end up getting is having themselves served up as the big cat's lunch and dinner!***SPOILERS*** Not as bad at it at first seemed with the killer cat after being practically invisible, we only get to see glimpse of him, for almost the entire film coming out into the open and really doing a number, with his foot long canines, on everyone that he both runs and bites into. Thatcher despite his best efforts as a big game hunter is stymied by both Bricklin & Catherine, in bringing the big cat down, who want to prevent him from doing his job not knowing, or even caring, that if he did they would live to see the end of the movie. It was Thatcher who finally put this indestructible killer away not with the modern and sophisticated weapons that he had at his disposal but with what the cave man used to both fend it off and kill it some 10,000 years ago!
annatrope I'm hopelessly addicted to the "Bwana-Bwana" movie genre, which is why I stayed tuned despite the cliché Characters, gawdoffal CGI, and outworn ("Human Greed + Quirky Science = Disaster") Premise.The allusions to the 1996 Big-Screen Thriller, "The Ghost and the Darkness" are unmistakable. The Big Game Hunter is even dressed up to resemble Michael Douglas' "Remington" character. The cave two of the teens explore by torchlight may remind you of the Tsavo Lions' (far spookier) Den, investigated by Douglas and Val Kilmer. The final showdown echoes the sequence in which Kilmer and John Kani together take on the second of the twin Man-Eaters.As a horror movie, this sucked. (What, nobody goes up and --stupidly -- pokes the "carcass" at the end?? ) As an "Adventure" film this could actually have been a "Contender"
Michael O'Keefe A Sci-Fi Channel Original directed by James D.R. Hickox. CGI that fails as much as it works. Hackneyed story that is watchable to the end. Cloning with remarkably fertile DNA, scientists create a vicious sabretooth tiger that escapes in transit. John Rhys-Davies fantasizes about being president and Vanessa Angel aspiring a Nobel Prize hire hunter deluxe David Keith to find the deadly animal before it rips more people apart. Jenna Gering and Josh Holloway are conducting an outdoors clinic that is interrupted by the ravenous predator. The tiger is to weight between 300 and 500 pounds, but the CGI placement has the creature various sizes. And by the way, what color is this sabretooth? Also in the cast: Nicole Tubiola, Lahmard J. Tate and Phillip Glasser. Keith is his usual cool and steady. Holloway appears to always be modeling.(Take him or leave him). But I found Tubiola to be the most exciting thing about this movie. Rhys-Davies and Tate are just plain obnoxious. And Angel most deservedly needed a rap across the chops.